Jonathan Harris, who succeeds the retired William Rubenstein as commissioner of the state Department of Consumer Protection, inherits a moneymaker that collected $43 million in fees last year (spending $20 million), oversees Connecticut's first medical marijuana program and, in the past year, handled more than 5,500 written consumer complaints. Harris, executive director of the state Democratic Party the past four years and a former state senator and West Hartford mayor, has a plan for his new position that coincides with National Consumer Protection Week (http://www.ncpw.gov/, ending March 7): Educate and empower the state's consumers, enforce where possible. Harris detailed...

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